Transplanting-box.



F. G. MOSIER.

TRANSPLANIING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20, 1014.

Patented Oct. 27,1914,

asz ez lnventor Attorneys FRANK C.. MOSIIER, :01. PITTSTON,.PENNSYLVANIA.

'mNSPLANTING-BOX.

Specification. or Letters Patent.

'Patente'd Oct: 27,, 1914.

Appl1cat1on'flLed' Jnneso, 191a. Seria1No.-846,343.

To alfl whom it may concern I Be-it known that I, FRANK C. MsmR','-a'

citizen of l the United States, residing at Plttston, in the county of Luzerne-an'd State -55 of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Transplanting-Box, of which the following is -a specification.

The present invention appertainsto trans-. planters, and aims to provide a. novel and improved transplanting device .for .hort1-.

cultural purposes.

The present invention "contemplates f the provision of a unique transplanting device, of simple, and inexpensive construction,

'' which may be readily and effectively-ems ployed' for propagating plants in hot-houses or I indoors, and for enabling the. plants to be transplanted out of doors, after they have been startedyand when the weather: permits.

With the fpregoing and other objects in view'w-hich will. appear as the description proceeds, the inventlon resides inthe'com-s bination and-arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter de-' scribed and claimed, it beingfiunderstood that. changes in theprecise embodimentof the invention herein disclosed can be made Within the scope of what is claimed'without departing from the spirit :ofithe Iinvention.

The invention has beenl'illlustrated in its perferred embodiment in the accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the, improved transplanting device, illustrating the scoop or removable member partially removed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the trans planting devicein normal condition. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the device taken on the line 33of Fig. 2.

The present device embodies a receptacle or container including a box proper 1, which may be constructed of wood, sheet metal, glass, paper, clay, or any other suitable material. As illustrated, the box 1 is formed from a blank of sheet metal, and includes the bottom 2 having the upturned walls 3 at opposite sides, and upturned side wall 4:

between certain ends of the side Walls 3.

The other side, or that side opposite the side wall 4, is open.

The device further includes a scoop or removable member 5, which comprises the bottom 6 of sheet metal or any other suitable material, having an upturned end iece 7 at its outer end. The bottom 6 Yo the scoo is of. a'size similar to: the bottom 2 of the ox, and is spaced slightly thereabove by. awcentral longitudinal depending flange 6 seating-on the bottom 2, the scoop bottom 6 fitssnugly between the sides 3 of the box,

.whereby. the end piece 7 of the scoop fits wathin and closes the open side of the box and completes the receptacle or container.

.The bottom 6 of the scoop 5 is preferably provided-with a central drain aperture 8 as well as the bottom-2 of the box to-enable the excessive water: to be discharged from .the container on receptacle.

As a means for normallyholding the scoop '5' within the box 1, the si "1e wall or end 4 of the box .1 is provided with a-pairof apertures -9 adjacent its upper cdge,.and the end piece 7 of the'scoop is provided with a similar parit -of apertures 10, adjacent its upper edge. 'A wire, cord or flexible binding element llvembraces the boxand scoop and is threaded tht-ough.thezaperturesfl and 10, so 'that when the-ends-or terminals of the flexi ble element: 11 are. tied or knotted together,

. as seenin: Fig. 2, the said element will tightly embrace the-side walls of the box and scoop, to hold thescoop' zit-normal position, and

will also prevent the side walls of the recep- .tacle or container from bulging or flexing outwardly under the pressure-of the loam or soil 12 therein. Thus, when the scoop 5 is finjmlace withinthe box 1,. and when the :fleicible binding element 11 is drawn taut and tied, the receptacle or container will be in condition to receive the loam or soil ,12, for propagating or rearing the plants within a hot-house or indoors. The binding element 11 willnot only hold the scoop firmly in place, but will also prevent the side walls of the container or receptacle from being bulged or bent outwardly. The transplanting device may then be disposed within a hot-house or indoors, where the atmospheric conditions are favorable, and in order that the plants maybe given an early start, while the external atmospheric conditions are unfavorable or when frosts are liable to occur.

-As soon as the weather permits, the plants from the box 1, and will carry with it, the loam or soil 12 which is disposed upon the bottom 6 of the scoop. The loam or soil 12 may then be readily carried by the scoop 5, and slipped off of the same into a hole rovided in the soil of the garden, or the ike. The sides of the scoop 5 being open, will enable the loam 12 to be readily slid ofi of the bottom of the scoop, when the loam or soil 12 is being deposited or transplanted in the garden or final bed for the plants. The present invention thus enables the plants to be reared or cultivated early in the season, within a hot-house, or the like, in order that the plants may be given an early start, and as soon as the weather permits, the plants may be quickly transplanted out of doors, to nsure the early maturing of the plants or vegetation for the market, and at aconsiderable period before those plants will mature which have been started out of doors. The present device is an-extremely simple and inexpensive one, and may be employed from season to season. I The device may also beconstructed in various sizes, acording to the circumstzatnces;

The de ending fiangefi of the scoop'b'ottom is o advantage, inasmuch as it spaces the scoop above the bottom of the box, which is in itself of advantage, and which is further of advantage in that it enablesthe scoop to be readily withdrawn from the box without the liability of the scoop sticking or clinging to the box after the loam has been in the receptacle or container for some time. The flange 6 therefore enables the scoop to be handled more convenientl it being-noted that when the end piece of the scoop is withdrawn from the box, the scoop may vbe tilted laterally upon the flange 6* as a all crum to loosen the loam from the'walls of is claimed-as new is 1. A transplanting device including a box having one side open, a removable scoop disposed over the bottom of the box and normally closing the said open side, and a bindmg element embracing and threaded through certain portions of the box and scoop.

2. A transplanting. device including a box having one side open, a removable scoop including a bottom disposed over the bottom of the ox and fitting snuglywithin the sides thereof and an end piece upstanding from one endot; the scoop bottom and normally closing the open side of tha box, and a binding element embracing-the box and scoop,

3. v A transplanting deviceincluding a box having one side open, and a removable scoop and threaded through thesaid end piece of the scoop andthe opposite side of the box.

disposed .over the bottom of the box and fitting snugly within the sides, and including an endpiece upstanding from one end of the scoop bottom and normally fitting within and closing the said open side of the box, the scoop bottom having a central longitudinal depending flange for spacing it above the bottom of the box and upon which the scoop is tiltable when the end piece thereof is with drawn from the box.

-Intest-irnony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

" FRANK C. MOSIER.

Witnessesi a MORGAN L. PERRIN, 0 JOHN '1". JFLANNERY. 

